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- From: thomas@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman)
- Subject: WHY ASK WHY NOT? (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.223816.28494@kodak.kodak.com>
- Followup-To: rec.humor
- Keywords: WHY NOT ASK
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- Organization: Precambrian Electronics, Rochester, NY
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 22:38:16 GMT
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- This is a long story, but it is kinda silly, and ends in a challenge to
- you humorists out there.
-
-
- WHY ASK WHY NOT?
-
- Recently my sister-in-law to be was visiting. On Sunday morning,
- Cathy, volunteered to cook breakfast. She was my (*ahem*) older
- sister-in-law-to-be, and wanted to impress my future fiancee with her
- omlette baking skills. My fiancee, however, also wanted to demonstrate
- her kitchen abilities to her older sister. Pots, pans, utensils, and
- implements of destruction were headed in all directions.
-
- I saw the writing on the wall, and headed out. (Figuring that I could
- find better things to do than get told to stay out of the way.)
-
- I started working on another project, but upon passing through the
- kitchen (mistake), I noticed that Cathy had placed a spoon with raw egg
- on it on the stove. Now, anybody that knows anything about physics,
- organic chemistry, or cooking+ knows that the strongest commonly
- occurring solid is not diamond, but actually dried-on-egg-yolk.
-
- Knowing that since they cooked, I was doomed to have to clean up, I got
- out a saucer, and demonstrated the age-old bachelor trick of putting
- the spoon on the saucer in order to prevent having to take the stove
- top apart, clean it, and put it back together again. Cathy was
- surprised, and said, "Why get another dish dirty, when you could just
- clean the stove?" My fiancee agreed with her.++
-
- Okay, So, my challenge to you, is to come up with things which fit in
- the following two blanks:
-
- Why ___________ when you could just _______________ ?
-
- Or, alternatively:
-
- Why not ___________ when you could just _______________ ?
-
- You shouldn't have to resort to acts of copulation or fornacation, the
- field is wide open. For examples:
-
- Why use a napkin, when you could just wash your clothes?
- Why floss, when you could just have your teeth drilled?
- Why wear a seat-belt, when you could just have brain surgery?
-
- You get the idea. Have fun.
-
- As always, names have been changed to protect the innocent.
- _________________________
- + specifically: network solids, and molecular bonding.
- ++ scarey, eh?
-
- --
- Thomas B. Kinsman, Rochester, NY, thomas@acadia.kodak.com
- "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." -anon
-